Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia

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News 2012

Malaventura by Michel Lipkes, Honorable Mention at FICM 2011

Malaventura (México)

11.28.11

Running time: 66 MIN.
An Axolote, Circo, Labofilms presentation in association with CCC, Bamboo Audiovisual, Zamora Films, KI Visual. Produced by Milko Luis Coronel, Michel Lipkes, Paula Astorga. Directed by Michel Lipkes. Screenplay, Fernando del Razo, Lipkes. Based on an idea by Lipkes.
With: Isaac Lopez, Reynaldo Gavino, Cynthia, Jose Alfredo "El parajito" Martinez, Graciela Castillo, Manuel Valderrama.

Morelia: shelter from the sensation/Sight and sound

11.24.11

Mark Cousins sees a running tussle between baroque culture and Bressonian art at Mexico’s foremost showcase of homegrown film.

Michael Wood, Mexican Feature Film Jury at FICM 2011

At the Movies

11.04.11

Michael Wood/ London Review of Books
I remember Morelia, in Mexico, from visits long ago: a fine old colonial city which seemed to have a crumbling convent or modest palace on almost every corner. It went through a bad patch in the early years of this century, even before narcoviolence made life difficult there as in so many parts of Mexico.

9th FICM ends in fiesta

10.22.11
By: Doris Morales

Translated by Cindy Hawes

The 9th Morelia International Film Festival held its closing ceremony at the Teatro Ocampo.

Michel Gondry visits Morelia

10.22.11
By: Clara Sánchez/Translated by Lauren Villagran

Gondry explained that The Home Movie Factory is a mobile film stubio, accessible to the public, with the mission of providing a space for people to create their own films in just three hours. Participants take home their own copy of their movie on DVD—something similar to what the protagonists do in Be Kind, Rewind.